Those seven players have until Nov. 13 to accept or reject the offer, which is a one-year deal valued at $17.9 million. Regardless of their decisions, none of the seven will ever be eligible for the offer again, meaning they'll be unencumbered the next time they reach free agency.

These are the 74th through 80th qualifying offers given out in the seven-year history of the tender, and of those previous 73, only five* have ever accepted -- and this is how that decision turned out for them all.

BRETT ANDERSON
The left-hander was one of the first to accept the QO, one of three from the 2015 free-agent class who decided to stick with their previous teams on a one-year, $15.8 million deal.

The Dodgers tendered the oft-injured Anderson after a 2015 season in which he went 10-9 with a 3.69 ERA in 31 starts -- for reference, he had made just 32 starts (and 11 relief appearances) from 2011-14 combined -- and probably wish they hadn't; a back issue limited the then-28-year-old lefty to just four appearances and 11 1/3 innings in 2016, in which he allowed 15 earned runs and posted a 2.56 WHIP.

Anderson ended up inking a one-year, $3.5 million deal with the Cubs the following winter, but has made just 30 starts for three teams (Cubs, Blue Jays, Athletics) over the last two seasons.

COLBY RASMUS
Rasmus was actually the first to announce acceptance of the offer, taking the Astros' one-year deal after slashing .238/.314/.475 with 25 home runs and 61 RBI in 137 games in 2015. His numbers went down across the board in 2016, though -- .206/.286/.355, 15 homers, 54 RBI in 107 games -- and when he reached free agency the following winter, Rasmus ended up with a one-year, $5 million deal from the Rays. He actually walked away from baseball at one point in 2017, too, and did so again in 2018 while with the Orioles, so he has played in just 57 total MLB games over the last two seasons.

MATT WIETERS
Wieters was still on the good side of 30 when he accepted Baltimore's qualifying offer in 2015, deciding to take that and hope to rebuild some value after coming off two straight injury-shortened seasons where he hit a combined .279 with 13 homers and 43 RBI in 394 plate appearances over 101 games.

In 2016, his age-30 season, Wieters stayed healthy and appeared in 124 games, and was an All-Star on the back of a .243/.304/.409 slash line with 17 homers, 66 RBI and a better-than-league-average 35 percent caught stealing rate. He earned a two-year, $21 million deal with Washington (technically, one year for $10.5 million with a similar player option for 2018), and enters free agency again this winter after posting a .230/.303/.355 slash line, 18 homers and 82 RBI in 199 games played in DC.

JEREMY HELLICKSON
Long considered a solid if unspectacular back-end rotation option, Hellickson -- then 29 and already on his third team -- accepted a one-year, $17.2 million QO in 2016 after going 12-10 with a 3.71 ERA and career-high 154 strikeouts in 32 starts (and a career high-tying 189 innings) for the rebuilding Phillies the previous season.

Hellickson ended up splitting 2017 between two teams, going 6-5 with a 4.73 ERA in 20 starts in Philly before being dealt to Baltimore, where he went 2-6 with a 6.97 ERA in 10 starts. That led to Hellickson only getting a Minor League deal from the Nationals ahead of this season, and he ended up making around $2 million after getting called up in late-April and going 5-3 with a 3.45 ERA in 19 starts.

NEIL WALKER
Walker had been dealt to the Mets between the 2015 and 2016 seasons, and he accepted the Amazins' QO in 2016 after slashing .282/.347/.486 with 14 homers and 49 RBI in 111 games in a season that ended prematurely because of back issues.

He rewarded the Mets with another strong half-season in 2017 -- .264/.339/.442 with 10 homers and 36 RBI in 73 games -- before being dealt to Milwaukee, where he slashed .267/.409/.433 with four homers and 13 RBI in 38 games to help the Brew Crew make an ultimately fruitless playoff run.

That didn't seem to help Walker the following winter, though, as he was one of the many free agents seemingly frozen out by a changing landscape; he ended up signing a one-year deal with the Yankees in mid-March, and for a $4 million base salary, the Yankees got a .219/.309/.354 slash line, 11 homers, 46 RBI and appearances at five different positions over 113 games.

*Editor's Note: The asterisk in the open refers to two additional players, who were tendered a qualifying offer in years past but ended up re-signing with their teams before having to make a decision.

In 2012, David Ortiz was part of the first group to receive qualifying offers, but signed a two-year, $26 million deal with Boston (with another $4 million in incentives/performance bonuses) before having to decide on the one-year, $13.3 million offer. That deal was later extended by a year, giving Ortiz three years and $45 million once all was said and done after the 2015 season, and Big Papi signed one more deal with Boston (one year, $16 million for 2016) before retiring.

In 2016, Marco Estrada was tendered the $15.8 million QO by Toronto, but before the decision, the two sides worked out a two-year, $26 million deal, which was later extended to a three-year, $39 million deal through 2018.